The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) organisation of

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throughout

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. TASA was founded in 1963 as the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (SAANZ). In 1988 with the

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branch splitting off into the

Sociological Association of Aotearoa (New Zealand) Sociological Association of Aotearoa (New Zealand) (SAANZ, or SAA(NZ)) was established in February 1988 from the transformation of the New Zealand Sociological Association, a branch of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (SA ...

, the association changed its name to TASA. TASA holds an annual conference, and publishes since 1965 the (formerly, Australian and New Zealand) ''

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'', the premiere journal for Australian sociological research. Membership of TASA stood at about 400 in the early 1990s. In 2022, membership is close to 740.

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References

*John Germov, Tara Renae McGee, ''Histories of Australian sociology'', Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2005,
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